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by hakfoo 9mo ago
For me the last one was Blade and Soul, and in the end, I dropped it rather than put up with it. Even live-service games are less of a hassle than they used to be. BDO works well, Genshin works with occasionally having to update Proton, an
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by hakfoo 9mo ago
I guess I don't quite understand what the selling point of a "desktop environment" is. I use a grab-bag of random software but generally don't bother with the KDE and GNOME-specific stuff. It reminds me of things like t
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by hakfoo 9mo ago
It feels like the quality of our eccentric billionaires has gone downhill. We've all seen the comic where the villian tells Spider-Man "I don't want to cure cancer, I want to turn people into dinosaurs." I would respect
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by hakfoo 9mo ago
If the commission system was completely transparent, it could be part of a trust system. A reviewer that said "I stand to receive $2.76 kickback if you buy the Magnavox TV, and $3.04 if you buy the Zenith, and I still recommend the Mag
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by hakfoo 9mo ago
An Abit AV8 was my first "Good" new motherboard. I came into some money and decided to build a then-new Socket 939 setup, with a 3200+. I recall they had one BIOS release that bricked boards, which I missed by not downloading it
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by hakfoo 9mo ago
The railroads provided something of enduring value. They did something materially better than previous competitors (horsecarts and canals) could. Even today, nothing beats freight rail for efficient, cheap modest-speed movement of goods.
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by hakfoo 9mo ago
I was under the impression that most gameplay scenarios are positive exposure for real-world brands. The kid who spends 500 hours of his childhood driving around specific cars in games is developing brand preferences before he ever steps f
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by hakfoo 9mo ago
I just bought a newer phone and was surprised to see even the ~$200 Samsungs were lacking a headphone jack. That threw them right out of contention, so I ended up getting a 2024-model Motorola (the 2025s were $50 more and reviews said they
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by hakfoo 9mo ago
That's what sort of confuses me. If you're no longer running a 680x0 and the custom chips that defined what an (original-series) Amiga was, and you can't plug in any of the historic peripherals (I don't even see a 9-pin
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by hakfoo 9mo ago
I think I actually retired an Archer C7 for this. The goal was something 2.5G ready because the city has systematically rolled out fibre to every neghbourhood around here and I'm just waiting for the knock.
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by hakfoo 9mo ago
I'm not using it for travel, but I got a GL-BE3600 recently and it's surprisingly decent as a home router for my very specific needs. I wired the desktop PCs in the house, so the only Wi-Fi users are mobiles, a smart TV, and a lap
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by hakfoo 10mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Desktop_Environment_1#/media... Evidently they offered both the Win9x and Motif-like themes back then too, I guess I never bothered with it. I can recall trying Beta 4 and probably
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by hakfoo 10mo ago
1:76 is a very popular scale for model railways in the UK, so I wonder if they design figures for that audience, then paint them in fatigues to expand the market range. The US preferred 1:87 historically. English 1:76 and American 1:87 tra
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by hakfoo 10mo ago
To me, the big aesthetic of early Qt/KDE1 is "Obvious Motif ripoff". Aside from the Win95/Warp style titlebars, if you don't have the big thick bevels and the distinct scroll bars, it's not quite right. It rea
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by hakfoo 10mo ago
Also 20% for a big heavy transformer. Sometimes I see cheap "amplifier only" designs that are about the size of a small 2U rackmount, but then you usually give up a lot of inputs and controls; they seem to be used either as PA amp
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by hakfoo 10mo ago
Why don't they have at least a receive-only radio? I can understand if they're averse to someone keying up and accidentally broadcasting Secret Military Stuff on the civilian frequency, but a an air-band capable VHF receiver is l
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by hakfoo 10mo ago
For some reason I had a much easier time getting OpenBSD working on one specific laptop (a Thinkpad E585 where I had replaced the stock Wifi with an Intel card). A lot of Linux distributions got into weird states where they forgot where th
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by hakfoo 10mo ago
For my two cents, it discourages standardization. If you run bare-metal, and instructions to build a project say "you need to install libfoo-dev, libbar-dev, libbaz-dev", you're still sourcing it from your known supply chain,
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by hakfoo 10mo ago
I always saw it as two different mindsets for data storage. One vision is "medium-centric". You might want paths to always be consistently relative to a specific floppy disc regardless of what drive it's in, or a specific Se
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by hakfoo 10mo ago
Wayland had the same odor a failed state has. It's a huge hairball with no easy fixes, but at the same time, that's of significant benefit to some specific players. You can have a very usable X11 desktop with positively pre-Cambr
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by hakfoo 11mo ago
Gamers at least enjoy their GPUs and memory. The tone from the AI industry sounds more like a dependent addict by comparison. They're well past the phase where they're enjoying their fix and into the "please, just another
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by hakfoo 11mo ago
Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon did that, and the thing about railway enthusiasts is that they go encyclopedic on that. They could identify any of the locomotives and probably tell you every pixel of them that was wrong.
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by hakfoo 11mo ago
Okay, this is a problem we literally solved in the early 1980s. Back in the days of the original IBM 5150, there was an agreed-upon "full length" card size. The case had a little plastic rail attached to the front panel, so a car
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by hakfoo 11mo ago
Why exactly is China an enemy? They want to increase their standard of living and expand their sphere of influence. That doesn't have to hurt the US directly. What it may undermine is the idea that the US gets to unilaterally steer
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by hakfoo 11mo ago
Isn't emacs the original super-app? :> I always wondered if mobile networks/tarriffs had a factor in it. If the super-app negotiates with the carrier to get zero-rated, it gains an immediate edge over other free-standing playe
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by hakfoo 11mo ago
It's surprising that when we had Win7 they did that brief "XP Mode" experiment with some virtualized-penalty box. Why didn't that go further? Presumably virtually any x86-64 box currently in circulation would be fast en
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by hakfoo 11mo ago
I suppose there's an X-factor in wrestling in the live physicality of it. There could be planned story events that can't be delivered due to injury or physical error. If a wrestler breaks a leg or seriously dislocates something
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by hakfoo 11mo ago
The market isn't going to function ideally in a place like New York. In other cities, a significant market-based response to high rents and housing demand is to increase supply with another ring of suburbs. Is there anywhere within re
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by hakfoo 11mo ago
Ration books for all?
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by hakfoo 11mo ago
Abundant resources could enable bad designs. I could in particular see a lot of commercial drive for huge models that can solve a bazillion different use cases, but aren't efficient for any of them. There might be also local/glob

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